Gerald SJ O'Collins
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199203130
- eISBN:
- 9780191707742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199203130.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
The divine identity of Jesus is essential for the efficacy of salvation and its entire story. That story comprises all the stages in the human history of the incarnate Son of God—right from his ...
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The divine identity of Jesus is essential for the efficacy of salvation and its entire story. That story comprises all the stages in the human history of the incarnate Son of God—right from his conception through to his glorious coming at the end of time.Less
The divine identity of Jesus is essential for the efficacy of salvation and its entire story. That story comprises all the stages in the human history of the incarnate Son of God—right from his conception through to his glorious coming at the end of time.
Arieh Bruce Saposnik
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195331219
- eISBN:
- 9780199868100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331219.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter explores competing definitions of “native” Hebrew identity claimed by two distinct social groups: a native generation that had been raised in the Zionist colonies and neighborhoods of ...
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This chapter explores competing definitions of “native” Hebrew identity claimed by two distinct social groups: a native generation that had been raised in the Zionist colonies and neighborhoods of the “first Aliya” and a group of immigrants who began arriving in 1903 and 1904, inaugurating what would become known as the “second Aliya.” Received initially with a mixed response from veteran Zionists, the *Labor‐Zionist immigrants among this new wave emerged as both partners and rivals in nationalizing the Yishuv. This rivalry contributed to the growth of a wide range of cultural activities, including the appearance of new celebrations, such as Passover fair in Rehovot, a symbol of Hebrew nativity; new rituals, such as pilgrimages to the graves of the Maccabees; and even the construction of “the first Hebrew city” of Tel Aviv. Many of those that would persist were, in the final analysis, syntheses of the cultural efforts of competing groups.Less
This chapter explores competing definitions of “native” Hebrew identity claimed by two distinct social groups: a native generation that had been raised in the Zionist colonies and neighborhoods of the “first Aliya” and a group of immigrants who began arriving in 1903 and 1904, inaugurating what would become known as the “second Aliya.” Received initially with a mixed response from veteran Zionists, the *Labor‐Zionist immigrants among this new wave emerged as both partners and rivals in nationalizing the Yishuv. This rivalry contributed to the growth of a wide range of cultural activities, including the appearance of new celebrations, such as Passover fair in Rehovot, a symbol of Hebrew nativity; new rituals, such as pilgrimages to the graves of the Maccabees; and even the construction of “the first Hebrew city” of Tel Aviv. Many of those that would persist were, in the final analysis, syntheses of the cultural efforts of competing groups.
F. E. Peters
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199747467
- eISBN:
- 9780199894796
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747467.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
This chapter flows from the proposition that critical history attempts to apply criteria of facticity to literary texts and that redaction criticism in particular looks for traces of editorial ...
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This chapter flows from the proposition that critical history attempts to apply criteria of facticity to literary texts and that redaction criticism in particular looks for traces of editorial activity — redactional fingerprints — on the work. Two cases in point: the Gospels’ Infancy Narratives dealing with Jesus’ birth and early years and the parallel passages in Muhammad’s Life concerning the Prophet’s earliest years in Mecca. Both the supernatural elements and the tendentiousness in the texts indicate that in both instances the reader is in the presence of myth and legend rather than history.Less
This chapter flows from the proposition that critical history attempts to apply criteria of facticity to literary texts and that redaction criticism in particular looks for traces of editorial activity — redactional fingerprints — on the work. Two cases in point: the Gospels’ Infancy Narratives dealing with Jesus’ birth and early years and the parallel passages in Muhammad’s Life concerning the Prophet’s earliest years in Mecca. Both the supernatural elements and the tendentiousness in the texts indicate that in both instances the reader is in the presence of myth and legend rather than history.
James John Boyce and O. Carm
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195124538
- eISBN:
- 9780199868421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195124538.003.0022
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The Carmelite Order accepted the Office of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary into its liturgy in 1393. The Carmelites of Mainz composed new texts for the feast and adapted music from three other ...
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The Carmelite Order accepted the Office of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary into its liturgy in 1393. The Carmelites of Mainz composed new texts for the feast and adapted music from three other Offices — St. Thomas of Canterbury, the Three Marys, and the Nativity of Mary — to the new texts. Differences in textual length and metrical patterns between these Presentation chants and their models forced changes in phrase divisions and melodic contours as part of this process of adaptation, yielding a product that is both musically distinctive and uniquely Carmelite.Less
The Carmelite Order accepted the Office of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary into its liturgy in 1393. The Carmelites of Mainz composed new texts for the feast and adapted music from three other Offices — St. Thomas of Canterbury, the Three Marys, and the Nativity of Mary — to the new texts. Differences in textual length and metrical patterns between these Presentation chants and their models forced changes in phrase divisions and melodic contours as part of this process of adaptation, yielding a product that is both musically distinctive and uniquely Carmelite.
Stephen J. Shoemaker
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199250752
- eISBN:
- 9780191600746
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199250758.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
The earliest centre of Marian cult in Palestine appears to have been an early Nativity shrine known as the Kathisma church, which by the early fifth century had become a focus of Marian piety. Not ...
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The earliest centre of Marian cult in Palestine appears to have been an early Nativity shrine known as the Kathisma church, which by the early fifth century had become a focus of Marian piety. Not long thereafter, the traditional site of Mary's tomb just outside the Jerusalem city walls emerged as a second important centre of Mary's veneration. In the early sixth century, a third Marian shrine was added to the Holy City, the Nea church, completed during the emperor Justinian's reign. The earliest feast of Mary in Palestine was 15 August, initially a celebration of Mary's role in the Nativity that eventually developed into a commemoration of her Dormition and/or Assumption. By the seventh century, this festival had expanded to encompass several days in mid‐August, in a stational liturgy that linked together all three of Jerusalem's Marian shrines.Less
The earliest centre of Marian cult in Palestine appears to have been an early Nativity shrine known as the Kathisma church, which by the early fifth century had become a focus of Marian piety. Not long thereafter, the traditional site of Mary's tomb just outside the Jerusalem city walls emerged as a second important centre of Mary's veneration. In the early sixth century, a third Marian shrine was added to the Holy City, the Nea church, completed during the emperor Justinian's reign. The earliest feast of Mary in Palestine was 15 August, initially a celebration of Mary's role in the Nativity that eventually developed into a commemoration of her Dormition and/or Assumption. By the seventh century, this festival had expanded to encompass several days in mid‐August, in a stational liturgy that linked together all three of Jerusalem's Marian shrines.
Nicholas Lossky
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198261858
- eISBN:
- 9780191682223
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198261858.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter focuses on the Christmas sermons of Lancelot Andrewes. Among his several sermons, seventeen were devoted to the Nativity and were preached on the 25th of December before James I and the ...
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This chapter focuses on the Christmas sermons of Lancelot Andrewes. Among his several sermons, seventeen were devoted to the Nativity and were preached on the 25th of December before James I and the Court between 1605 and 1624. His sermons display a sense of unity in their central theme and reveal a great diversity in the manner of treatment. His Nativity sermons display a vision of the dogma of Incarnation with all its doctrinal and spiritual implications and the chapter looks at how they discuss the central paradox of the two natures of Christ: the divine nature and the human nature.Less
This chapter focuses on the Christmas sermons of Lancelot Andrewes. Among his several sermons, seventeen were devoted to the Nativity and were preached on the 25th of December before James I and the Court between 1605 and 1624. His sermons display a sense of unity in their central theme and reveal a great diversity in the manner of treatment. His Nativity sermons display a vision of the dogma of Incarnation with all its doctrinal and spiritual implications and the chapter looks at how they discuss the central paradox of the two natures of Christ: the divine nature and the human nature.
Kenneth Prewitt
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691157030
- eISBN:
- 9781400846795
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691157030.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter argues that the center of gravity is shifting because of an intricate interplay between America's color line and its nativity line. It uses the color line concept to ask whether America ...
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This chapter argues that the center of gravity is shifting because of an intricate interplay between America's color line and its nativity line. It uses the color line concept to ask whether America has the right policy tools to fully erase the line that separated whites and racial minorities throughout America's history. If they merge—if immigrants are racialized—the future sadly repeats America's past. If, instead, America's population becomes so diverse and multiracial that the color line disappears, an altogether different future is in store, perhaps the promised postracial society. However, it is not certain whether this social process will strengthen or weaken a color line inherited from the eighteenth century, strengthened across the next century and a half, and then challenged but not fully erased by the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.Less
This chapter argues that the center of gravity is shifting because of an intricate interplay between America's color line and its nativity line. It uses the color line concept to ask whether America has the right policy tools to fully erase the line that separated whites and racial minorities throughout America's history. If they merge—if immigrants are racialized—the future sadly repeats America's past. If, instead, America's population becomes so diverse and multiracial that the color line disappears, an altogether different future is in store, perhaps the promised postracial society. However, it is not certain whether this social process will strengthen or weaken a color line inherited from the eighteenth century, strengthened across the next century and a half, and then challenged but not fully erased by the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.
Jason P. Rosenblatt
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199286133
- eISBN:
- 9780191713859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199286133.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter examines the influence of Selden’s De Diis Syris (1617; rev edn, 1629) and Maimonides’ principle of normative inversion on the catalog of pagan deities in book 1 of Paradise Lost and on ...
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This chapter examines the influence of Selden’s De Diis Syris (1617; rev edn, 1629) and Maimonides’ principle of normative inversion on the catalog of pagan deities in book 1 of Paradise Lost and on the false oracles in the Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (December 1629). In an act of transumption, Milton daringly invents the angel Zephon as a sacred original, who predates his idolatrous opposite, the Baal-Zephon of Exodus 14:2. Philology and intercultural theology merge in De Diis, where the translatability of biblical names of God hints at a proto-Deist conception of a single divine essence that manifests itself in the totality of revelations granted to humankind. Selden’s lists of ancient gods deriving from a single source attest to his great interest in the nascent field of international law.Less
This chapter examines the influence of Selden’s De Diis Syris (1617; rev edn, 1629) and Maimonides’ principle of normative inversion on the catalog of pagan deities in book 1 of Paradise Lost and on the false oracles in the Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (December 1629). In an act of transumption, Milton daringly invents the angel Zephon as a sacred original, who predates his idolatrous opposite, the Baal-Zephon of Exodus 14:2. Philology and intercultural theology merge in De Diis, where the translatability of biblical names of God hints at a proto-Deist conception of a single divine essence that manifests itself in the totality of revelations granted to humankind. Selden’s lists of ancient gods deriving from a single source attest to his great interest in the nascent field of international law.
Noam Reisner
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199572625
- eISBN:
- 9780191721892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572625.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
After a brief reconsideration of Milton's well-documented impatience with, or even fear of, ineffable mystery in more general terms, and his place in the intellectual apophatic tradition traced so ...
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After a brief reconsideration of Milton's well-documented impatience with, or even fear of, ineffable mystery in more general terms, and his place in the intellectual apophatic tradition traced so far, this chapter examines the shape and development of Milton's prophetic and pastoral voices in Poems 1645. It focuses in particular on the elusive presence of ineffable mystery and rapture in the ‘Nativity Ode’, ‘The Passion’, ‘At a Solemn Music’, A Masque, ‘Lycidas’ and ‘Epitaphium Damonis’, in the order they appear in the volume. It explores the difficulty Milton faced as a young devout Protestant, still unsure of his own radical ideas, in resolving the conceptual contradiction between his religious belief in the power and perspicuity of words, and his desire to capture that which is beyond words in rapturous poetic flight.Less
After a brief reconsideration of Milton's well-documented impatience with, or even fear of, ineffable mystery in more general terms, and his place in the intellectual apophatic tradition traced so far, this chapter examines the shape and development of Milton's prophetic and pastoral voices in Poems 1645. It focuses in particular on the elusive presence of ineffable mystery and rapture in the ‘Nativity Ode’, ‘The Passion’, ‘At a Solemn Music’, A Masque, ‘Lycidas’ and ‘Epitaphium Damonis’, in the order they appear in the volume. It explores the difficulty Milton faced as a young devout Protestant, still unsure of his own radical ideas, in resolving the conceptual contradiction between his religious belief in the power and perspicuity of words, and his desire to capture that which is beyond words in rapturous poetic flight.
Penne L. Restad
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195109801
- eISBN:
- 9780199854073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195109801.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Every Christian indeed awaits the celebration of Christmas. For centuries, every believer of the same faith battled the thoughts on why, when, and how to celebrate the coming of Christ. With the ...
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Every Christian indeed awaits the celebration of Christmas. For centuries, every believer of the same faith battled the thoughts on why, when, and how to celebrate the coming of Christ. With the diverse cultures bounded by different sets of traditions and beliefs, having a unified way of commemorating Jesus' birth has been a great dilemma. In this chapter, Christmas celebrations in different colonies are discussed starting from the European inheritances where the beginning of the foundation of this special day were brought out on American soil. In this chapter, Christian life prior to the times of recognizing the day of Jesus' birth on the 25th of December is discussed. The chapter includes discussion of a political and spiritual battle between the Christian faith, rising cults, and the pagans, in the Catholic Church's drive and decision to out reign other religions in the celebration and promulgation of the Feast of the Nativity.Less
Every Christian indeed awaits the celebration of Christmas. For centuries, every believer of the same faith battled the thoughts on why, when, and how to celebrate the coming of Christ. With the diverse cultures bounded by different sets of traditions and beliefs, having a unified way of commemorating Jesus' birth has been a great dilemma. In this chapter, Christmas celebrations in different colonies are discussed starting from the European inheritances where the beginning of the foundation of this special day were brought out on American soil. In this chapter, Christian life prior to the times of recognizing the day of Jesus' birth on the 25th of December is discussed. The chapter includes discussion of a political and spiritual battle between the Christian faith, rising cults, and the pagans, in the Catholic Church's drive and decision to out reign other religions in the celebration and promulgation of the Feast of the Nativity.
Ron E. Hassner
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195342048
- eISBN:
- 9780199852017
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195342048.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines the key problems that counterinsurgency operations pose in sacred places. It first delineates the concept of a “sacred space” and explains the key features that grant such ...
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This chapter examines the key problems that counterinsurgency operations pose in sacred places. It first delineates the concept of a “sacred space” and explains the key features that grant such spaces a sacral quality. It then examines how insurgent groups can usefully occupy and exploit sacred places. It argues that insurgents can mingle with pilgrims and worshippers and can also use the sacredness of shrines, mosques, and temples as sanctuaries from counterinsurgent forces who may be understandably loath to offend local religious sensibilities by using force against such locales. The chapter outlines possible strategies and potential pitfalls for security forces when they are seeking to flush out insurgents who have taken refuge in sacred arenas. Finally, it looks at some of the lessons derived from the Israeli siege of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, where several Palestinian militants retreated in 2002.Less
This chapter examines the key problems that counterinsurgency operations pose in sacred places. It first delineates the concept of a “sacred space” and explains the key features that grant such spaces a sacral quality. It then examines how insurgent groups can usefully occupy and exploit sacred places. It argues that insurgents can mingle with pilgrims and worshippers and can also use the sacredness of shrines, mosques, and temples as sanctuaries from counterinsurgent forces who may be understandably loath to offend local religious sensibilities by using force against such locales. The chapter outlines possible strategies and potential pitfalls for security forces when they are seeking to flush out insurgents who have taken refuge in sacred arenas. Finally, it looks at some of the lessons derived from the Israeli siege of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, where several Palestinian militants retreated in 2002.
Natasha O'Hear
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199590100
- eISBN:
- 9780191725678
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590100.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Chapter 4 focuses on another synchronic visualization of elements of the Book of Revelation: Botticelli's Mystic Nativity of 1500/1. Botticelli's possible links to Savonarola himself and particularly ...
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Chapter 4 focuses on another synchronic visualization of elements of the Book of Revelation: Botticelli's Mystic Nativity of 1500/1. Botticelli's possible links to Savonarola himself and particularly to the piagnone movement are discussed as an important part of the cultural, artistic, and reliaious context of the painting. The unusually personal Greek inscription at the top of the painting in which Botticelli explicitly links the painting (superficially a Nativity scene) with Rev. 11. 12, and possibly 20 provides the focus for the hermeneutical discussion of the work. Possible links with the roughly contemporaneous Mystic Crucifixion are also discussed in an extended consideration of The Mystic Nativity's contemporary function and meaning within its early sixteenth‐century Florentine context. The exegetical implications of the painting are also touched upon in this chapter and returned to in Chapter 6.Less
Chapter 4 focuses on another synchronic visualization of elements of the Book of Revelation: Botticelli's Mystic Nativity of 1500/1. Botticelli's possible links to Savonarola himself and particularly to the piagnone movement are discussed as an important part of the cultural, artistic, and reliaious context of the painting. The unusually personal Greek inscription at the top of the painting in which Botticelli explicitly links the painting (superficially a Nativity scene) with Rev. 11. 12, and possibly 20 provides the focus for the hermeneutical discussion of the work. Possible links with the roughly contemporaneous Mystic Crucifixion are also discussed in an extended consideration of The Mystic Nativity's contemporary function and meaning within its early sixteenth‐century Florentine context. The exegetical implications of the painting are also touched upon in this chapter and returned to in Chapter 6.
Christopher Tilmouth
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199698707
- eISBN:
- 9780191740756
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698707.003.0012
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This essay examines continuities and divergences between Milton's early poems and The Reason of Church‐Government in assessing the young Milton as a ceremonial Arminian who later endorses ...
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This essay examines continuities and divergences between Milton's early poems and The Reason of Church‐Government in assessing the young Milton as a ceremonial Arminian who later endorses congregational independency. Attention to the Nativity Ode and ‘The Passion’ discloses an emphasis upon ritual and a suspicion of corporeality. A ‘self‐pious regard’ found in the tract also coheres with Comus's Neoplatonic evocation of the integrity of the self. Lycidas focuses several themes to which Church‐Government replies: the tract redefines the poet's ministry and sets episcopal carnality and definitions of the church in new contexts crucial to later Milton: that of old‐ versus new‐law sensibilities.Less
This essay examines continuities and divergences between Milton's early poems and The Reason of Church‐Government in assessing the young Milton as a ceremonial Arminian who later endorses congregational independency. Attention to the Nativity Ode and ‘The Passion’ discloses an emphasis upon ritual and a suspicion of corporeality. A ‘self‐pious regard’ found in the tract also coheres with Comus's Neoplatonic evocation of the integrity of the self. Lycidas focuses several themes to which Church‐Government replies: the tract redefines the poet's ministry and sets episcopal carnality and definitions of the church in new contexts crucial to later Milton: that of old‐ versus new‐law sensibilities.
Marina Belozerskaya
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199739318
- eISBN:
- 9780199979356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199739318.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine
Frederick II Hohenstaufen, the Holy Roman Emperor who ruled southern Italy in the 13th century, seems to have acquired the Tazza from travelling merchants. He was keen to emulate and revive the ...
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Frederick II Hohenstaufen, the Holy Roman Emperor who ruled southern Italy in the 13th century, seems to have acquired the Tazza from travelling merchants. He was keen to emulate and revive the golden age of Rome and both collected and commissioned works associated with antiquity. But he may have also re-interpreted the Tazza’s imagery as a Christian scene, as medieval Europeans often did when confronted with pagan artworks.Less
Frederick II Hohenstaufen, the Holy Roman Emperor who ruled southern Italy in the 13th century, seems to have acquired the Tazza from travelling merchants. He was keen to emulate and revive the golden age of Rome and both collected and commissioned works associated with antiquity. But he may have also re-interpreted the Tazza’s imagery as a Christian scene, as medieval Europeans often did when confronted with pagan artworks.
Lisa Yarger
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630052
- eISBN:
- 9781469630076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630052.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Family History
At Christmas time, the narrator visits the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and stands before a triptych by Jan Joest van Kalkar, contemplating why this particular Nativity brings midwife Lovie Shelton to ...
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At Christmas time, the narrator visits the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and stands before a triptych by Jan Joest van Kalkar, contemplating why this particular Nativity brings midwife Lovie Shelton to mind.Less
At Christmas time, the narrator visits the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and stands before a triptych by Jan Joest van Kalkar, contemplating why this particular Nativity brings midwife Lovie Shelton to mind.
Uzi Rebhun
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231178266
- eISBN:
- 9780231541497
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231178266.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Chapter 2 concerns itself with three main indicators of stratification: geographic dispersion, education, and earnings. For each religious group, the distribution of these stratification indicators ...
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Chapter 2 concerns itself with three main indicators of stratification: geographic dispersion, education, and earnings. For each religious group, the distribution of these stratification indicators is explored. An advanced analysis introduces Jews’ group affiliation versus non-Jews, and further decomposes the latter by detailed religious affiliation, as determinants of social and economic patterns.Less
Chapter 2 concerns itself with three main indicators of stratification: geographic dispersion, education, and earnings. For each religious group, the distribution of these stratification indicators is explored. An advanced analysis introduces Jews’ group affiliation versus non-Jews, and further decomposes the latter by detailed religious affiliation, as determinants of social and economic patterns.
Roger Waldinger
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520230927
- eISBN:
- 9780520927711
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520230927.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter considers how that immigrants who are not fluent in English and are poorly educated are able to find jobs in the United States. It looks at the broader implications of this situation, ...
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This chapter considers how that immigrants who are not fluent in English and are poorly educated are able to find jobs in the United States. It looks at the broader implications of this situation, and stresses the importance of comparisons that consider gender and nativity status. The discussion determines that immigrants may have ample access to social capital, but their resources are not available to all. It states that even immigrants who benefit from their connections to employers find that those connections work less efficiently in placing them in jobs of adequate quality.Less
This chapter considers how that immigrants who are not fluent in English and are poorly educated are able to find jobs in the United States. It looks at the broader implications of this situation, and stresses the importance of comparisons that consider gender and nativity status. The discussion determines that immigrants may have ample access to social capital, but their resources are not available to all. It states that even immigrants who benefit from their connections to employers find that those connections work less efficiently in placing them in jobs of adequate quality.
Mucahit Bilici
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226049564
- eISBN:
- 9780226922874
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226922874.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter offers a theory of inhabitation. It clarifies the meanings of being diasporic and being at home. It presents a series of concepts that facilitate the understanding of “nativity” as a ...
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This chapter offers a theory of inhabitation. It clarifies the meanings of being diasporic and being at home. It presents a series of concepts that facilitate the understanding of “nativity” as a general human condition. How do the alienated regain solidarity with the world? How does the opaque object that a subject struggles “with” become a transparent equipment the subject is fluent “in?” The chapter delineates the acquisition of “learned ignorance” (Bourdieu) or “inconspicuous familiarity” (Heidegger) that is at the heart of inhabitation. It lays out the ethical elements of the intricate process through which the diasporic stranger becomes a native citizen. As such it is an invitation to further thinking on the often neglected notions of appropriation and inhabitation.Less
This chapter offers a theory of inhabitation. It clarifies the meanings of being diasporic and being at home. It presents a series of concepts that facilitate the understanding of “nativity” as a general human condition. How do the alienated regain solidarity with the world? How does the opaque object that a subject struggles “with” become a transparent equipment the subject is fluent “in?” The chapter delineates the acquisition of “learned ignorance” (Bourdieu) or “inconspicuous familiarity” (Heidegger) that is at the heart of inhabitation. It lays out the ethical elements of the intricate process through which the diasporic stranger becomes a native citizen. As such it is an invitation to further thinking on the often neglected notions of appropriation and inhabitation.
Elizabeth Fussell and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226748894
- eISBN:
- 9780226748924
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226748924.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter offers a broad overview of the experience of youth from 1900 up to the present. It describes changes in the experience of young people between the ages of sixteen and thirty who lived ...
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This chapter offers a broad overview of the experience of youth from 1900 up to the present. It describes changes in the experience of young people between the ages of sixteen and thirty who lived between 1900 and 2000, distinguishing between men and women, native-born and foreign-born individuals, and native-born whites and blacks. It relates changes in the combinations of adult statuses that average young people in these groups experience both to historical events and to structural and cultural change. Using U.S. census data, the chapter identifies the ways in which the transition to adulthood has become more complex in the latter half of the twentieth century but also the greater similarity among gender, race, and nativity groups in the way in which the transition to adulthood is experienced in terms of sociodemographic status combinations. As more young people, regardless of gender, race, or nativity, participate in secondary education through their teens, young people leave home at later ages. Furthermore, the norms surrounding the appropriate age for marriage and childbearing have changed radically over the century.Less
This chapter offers a broad overview of the experience of youth from 1900 up to the present. It describes changes in the experience of young people between the ages of sixteen and thirty who lived between 1900 and 2000, distinguishing between men and women, native-born and foreign-born individuals, and native-born whites and blacks. It relates changes in the combinations of adult statuses that average young people in these groups experience both to historical events and to structural and cultural change. Using U.S. census data, the chapter identifies the ways in which the transition to adulthood has become more complex in the latter half of the twentieth century but also the greater similarity among gender, race, and nativity groups in the way in which the transition to adulthood is experienced in terms of sociodemographic status combinations. As more young people, regardless of gender, race, or nativity, participate in secondary education through their teens, young people leave home at later ages. Furthermore, the norms surrounding the appropriate age for marriage and childbearing have changed radically over the century.
Jerome Yehuda Gellman
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781786942289
- eISBN:
- 9781800343283
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786942289.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter presents an approach to religious truth and to telic truth while explaining how this strategy functions in interreligious understanding. It then turns to defend the face of three widely ...
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This chapter presents an approach to religious truth and to telic truth while explaining how this strategy functions in interreligious understanding. It then turns to defend the face of three widely held objections to the author's position: the expressionist objection, the nativity objection, and the postmodernist objection. The chapter offers a philosophical analysis of religious truth and own defence of a correspondence-based understanding of truth. It states that the falsity of a core belief of another religion means that to that belief there corresponds no objective, independent state of affairs, hence, a correspondence view of religious truth. The chapter explores the meaning of religious truth within the framework of a broader philosophical discussion that is not particular to Judaism. Judaism provides the specific instance for statements of broader context and appeal. Finally, it elaborates a detailed and careful presentation of Jewish belief in a very rough and schematic way.Less
This chapter presents an approach to religious truth and to telic truth while explaining how this strategy functions in interreligious understanding. It then turns to defend the face of three widely held objections to the author's position: the expressionist objection, the nativity objection, and the postmodernist objection. The chapter offers a philosophical analysis of religious truth and own defence of a correspondence-based understanding of truth. It states that the falsity of a core belief of another religion means that to that belief there corresponds no objective, independent state of affairs, hence, a correspondence view of religious truth. The chapter explores the meaning of religious truth within the framework of a broader philosophical discussion that is not particular to Judaism. Judaism provides the specific instance for statements of broader context and appeal. Finally, it elaborates a detailed and careful presentation of Jewish belief in a very rough and schematic way.
